State violence and human rights
Subtitle: the role of state officials in the south
By: edited by Steffen Jensen and Andrew M. Jefferson.
Contributors: Jensen, Steffen.; Jefferson, Andrew M.
Publisher: Routledge-Cavendish
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780415477727
Subjects: Human rights; Political persecution; Political violence; Police -- Complaints against
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The politics of Palestinian legal reform : judicial independence and accountability under occupation / Tobias Kelly; title: Traditional authority and localization of state law : the intricacies of boundary marking in policing rural Mozambique / Helene Maria Kyed; title: The vision of the state : audiences, enchantments and policing in South Africa / Steffen Jensen; title: Translating human rights in the margins : a police-migrant encounter in Johannesburg / Julia Hornberger; title: The special field force and Namibian ex-combatant "reintegration" / Lalli Metsola; title: On hangings and the dubious embodiment of statehood in Nigerian prisons / Andrew M. Jefferson; title: Taking the snake out of the basket : Indian prison warders' opposition to human rights reform / Tomas Martin; title: Community policing programmes as police human rights strategies in Costa Rica / Quirine Eijkman; title: Commentary : the piggy-in-the-middle / Mike Brogden.